diff --git a/contrib/pyzfs/setup.py.in b/contrib/pyzfs/setup.py.in
index 43a1accfaf02..55640ec0f0d4 100644
--- a/contrib/pyzfs/setup.py.in
+++ b/contrib/pyzfs/setup.py.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 #
 # Copyright 2015 ClusterHQ
 #
@@ -25,11 +26,10 @@ setup(
     author="ClusterHQ",
     author_email="support@clusterhq.com",
     url="http://pyzfs.readthedocs.org",
-    license="Apache License, Version 2.0",
+    license="Apache-2.0",
     classifiers=[
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.pl b/scripts/spdxcheck.pl
index 8e40cee835cb..b71caaad11ad 100755
--- a/scripts/spdxcheck.pl
+++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.pl
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@
 	contrib/bpftrace/zfs-trace.sh
 	contrib/pyzfs/docs/source/conf.py
 	contrib/pyzfs/libzfs_core/test/__init__.py
-	contrib/pyzfs/setup.py.in
 	contrib/zcp/autosnap.lua
 	scripts/commitcheck.sh
 	scripts/man-dates.sh